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The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practices—from diaries and poetry, to almanacs and commonplace books, to sermons and lists, to Indigenous ruins and other material shards and fragments—often overlooked by critics in a scholarly privileging of the “whole.”
The contributors to Situation Critical argue for the continued importance of critique to early American studies, pushing back against both reductivist neo-empiricism and so-called postcritique.
Call for Papers The 51st AAAS conference will take place from October 17-19, 2024, at the University College of Teacher Education Vorarlberg, Austria. It will explore “Education, the Arts, and American Studies.” Teachers and scholars interested in presenting a paper are asked to submit their proposals until May 31, 2024.
The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) welcomes proposals for its annual conference. This year's conference will take place at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford on Friday 5th July and will focus on the theme of history from the margins. We encourage proposals for papers, panels or roundtables that engage with the researching, writing, archiving and teaching of untold histories of women and gender non-conforming people in the Americas.
New calls for papers and monograph proposals from Open Cultural Studies, Rowman & Littlefield, and more.
On 26 April 2024, from 17.30 UK time, the University of East Anglia is hosting "Unfolding Our Shared Future: Challenge, Possibility and Potential in the 21st Century," part of a travelling festival organised by the American Politics Group. The theme for the UEA event, which is being co-hosted by the Arthur Miller Institute for American Studies and the Department of Politics is the judiciary and the guest speakers are Baroness Shami Chakrabarti and Professor Steven K. Green. Online and in person attendance are both available.
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